Work smarter?

When I saw this. I was intrigued and seem like that not all the pointers are really possible for some of the situations in our job. 

Plan out your weeks and days in advance

I more ‘kiasu’. I planned in months and years. How much time more to my first CPF pay out.Ops, sorry that has nothing to do with my job.

Turn off notifications for useless apps

I simply deleted them off. Make my handphone last longer. LOL.

Find tasks to eliminate

I am trying now to eliminate my housing loan. LOL.Eliminate your task? What happened if the bosses had a second thought about it when you think you could have eliminate it.

Use Do not disturb on your phone

I went much further. I simply off my mobile data. Try WhatsApp me if you can. Oh, by the way, my mobile data consumption is less than 300mb a month. Shocking? No. It is just a matter of choices. 

Invest in learning

This might not be clear. It actually means investing your time to learning. Rather challenging as most of us are pretty much caught up with the pace of life. But of course, for those simply do not like reading. How about reading the things you like instead?

Sometime, the bosses aren't really interested in your learning but rather on the progress of the tasks he/she has set upon you.

Automate tasks

Not easy. Especially for people who are trapped in a system controlled by others. Nowadays. Bosses tend to create processes based on individual in mind rather than a system where anyone can work with.

Don’t multitask

It encourages ‘focus’. But as usual, that isn’t what most of the bosses wants from their workers. Some of them expected an individual to be multi-tasking. So really, sometime it is not that we do not want to stay focus. It is just that people are constrained by the processes created by some idiots.

Do important work only

This means ‘prioritise’ your work. Again, it is rather difficult for those trapped and restricted by the processes set by others unless given some degree of autonomy in work. But ones can do more for their own life isn’t it? Spending time with your children and polishing car, which one do you think is more important?

Become organise

Let’s be realistic. Half of the time, things just seem to goes haywire for no reasons. The more organised we are, the less likely we will get panic. An organised army takes less damage when they are under a surprised attack, because they can rally and recover faster than a disorganised mob.

Limit to 3x email a day

In this age of social media where almost everything is control by computer. It is rather tough to maintain. LOL. Still, it encourages focus and less complications. But then for most of the time, we all know it is not really up to us to decide, especially when our jobs demand a lot of emails communications.

Measure results, not time

Ho! Ho! Ho! This require some dose of foresight and wisdom to do it. Far too many individuals are trained to measure things with beautiful charts and statistic. It is very easy to get lost in those pretty numbers and figures when the real stuffs are actually happening just outside the windows.

Write things down, don’t rely on memory

It helped keep track of things. I kind of rely a lot on memory. Mainly because it keeps me alert. But I do organise my memory bank to make things easy to remember. How? Well, I remembered by image rather than names. Image is far easier to stay imprint in mind than exact name. Example, the colour and shape of a building and its surrounding. But there are important things that best written down somewhere such as ‘password’. 

Oh yes, it sort of become rather stressful when you realised on your notebook a long list of tasks you have been assigned by bosses to do.

Work in block

Ok. It actually means focusing on one task rather than doing bits and bits. A full focus of 2 hours work on a single task could achieve better productivity and results than doing it in pieces. Once again, sometime we are so caught up with the pace of life that we can’t fully allocated a block of time to a task. Especially when the bosses bombard the emails with ‘do this do that’. LOL.

Relieve Stress

Stress relieve is important! Imagine a balloon, keep feeding it air and one day it just explodes. We need platforms to relieve stress. Be it a short trip oversea, or a simple walk at a park. As for me, I am a gamer, I played games to relieve stress. LOL.

Do the difficult task first

Well, I have to say this. Sometime, I am just really not in that ‘challenging’ mood to do the difficult task first. Especially when we are already so much caught up in life. Still, it does have its merits for neutralising the most difficult task to make things smoother before it gets worse.

Stick to a routine

If we are aimless and do not know what to do next. A set of routine helps to propel us forward in achieving our goals. But a good routine should allow some flexibility for change and modification when needed. But sometimes, a routine can gets really boring after months of doing the same things again and again, especially those with little value.